E. M. Forster

Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#get #soft #squashed #stand #you

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#ear #ever #fifth #into #man

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#causes #creative #greater #represent #than

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#destroys #him #idea #man #saves

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#mental #mind #process #sort

I am certainly an ought and not a must. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#certainly #i #i am #must #ought

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#around #blood #come #desert #distrust

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#i #individual #mystic #people

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#down #got #i #i am #i think

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#could #existed #friends #get #i